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Monday, October 6, 2014

My marathon trip Part 1

Jon and I decided to make a mini vacation out of my marathon trip. So we headed to St. Charles on Friday. It was one of the most relaxing weekends that I've had in a really long time. Our hotel room was perfect, the weather was gorgeous, and the food was superb.

We ate lunch in downtown St. Charles at this local family owned Italian restaurant. I can't remember EVER eating a pizza that good.

And then the dessert came. Oh. My. Word!

I might have pigged out.

On a funny side note: I went downstairs to use the restroom and found this lovely hole in the door.

When sitting on the seat you could see and hear everything going on outside the door. Thank goodness there weren't any people downstairs.

Somehow, despite all of the pictures I took, I failed to get any pictures of the downtown. The roads were the original brick. Consequently it was like riding a roller coaster to drive down the road or walk on the sidewalks. But it was so cool. Since Jon or I weren't really interested in shopping we drove down the road for the experience, ate at the local restaurant and then explored the countryside outside of town.

These are some of the pictures I took.

This lady wasn't being very cooperative. As soon as I'd put the camera up she'd put her head down or turn away. But she was so sweet and pretty that I forgive her.

Just to give you a frame of reference - my dad is 6 foot tall.

Love this man!

And my 4'll foot mom. =)

I had so much fun that didn't even relate to the marathon. It was the perfect, relaxing vacation.

Monday, November 4, 2013

Mini Vacation

Jon and I went on a mini vacation this weekend. We had originally had plans to go to Georgia with the church youth group. But quite a few things kept changing around and we found ourselves on Friday with no plans at all. But I'd already asked a friend to watch the kids for the weekend.

So we headed down to Chattanooga to spend some time with family and each other.

It was a great weekend. Jon and I spent most of Saturday in nature by ourselves. The leaves were turning colors and the weather was cool, but gorgeous.

I'm testing out my new watermark. What do you think?

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Camera drama

Jon and I leave in a couple of days for our anniversary trip. My in-laws are on their way, the bags are packed, the car cleaned, the kids prepared. But I'm still waiting on my camera. I purchased the camera used with the knowledge that it needed a good cleaning. And since I could see spots in the upper section of the picture when I took light pictures I went ahead and took it in to the shop about a month ago. The man promised me that I'd have it back in two weeks or less. After two weeks I called him. It turns out that the spots are a software problem. The camera is perfectly clean. Since the software problem is estimated to cost over $400 I decided to just have them return it. The shop that I took it to had it sent off to be evaluated since he doesn't do extensive cleaning or repairs. Apparently no one in Cookeville does camera work. So now I'm waiting for the camera to get back. I'm getting a bit anxious because I'm afraid that I'll be going on my trip without the camera. And since Charleston is a gorgeous town I can't go without a decent camera.

I've been bugging the poor guy every day for a week now and he said it should be here tomorrow. Otherwise I'm stuck with my point and shoot. So hopefully I'll have my nice camera and can post pictures while we are gone. And I'll need to invest in Photoshop so I can delete those annoying spots.